Sentence examples for half basic from inspiring English sources

Maternity: After 26 weeks' service, 14 weeks' full (basic) pay, four weeks' pay at half basic rate, then SMP.

The performance of Basic was a bit of a problem – it being an interpreted language, where every command was translated into machine instructions every time it was run - so sometimes you would have to write weird hybrid programs, half Basic and half "assembly language" (essentially machine code) to get the performance you needed for animations or serious number crunching.

The Pentagon funds about one-half of basic electrical engineering research, for instance, and one-fifth of math and physics studies.

Compensation was half the basic pay for up to six months, at which point the claim could be settled by a lump sum.

Hok hok hok! (Hey, crowned eagle!) Very good — you have already mastered half the basic vocabulary of the Campbell's monkey, a fellow primate that lives in the forests of the Tai National Park in Ivory Coast.

According to the most recent figures the paper filed with the Audit Bureau of Circulations, for the six months that ended Sept. 30, on an average day The Journal sold 501,000 copies at less than half the basic price, up from 420,000 in the same period in 2007, and 214,000 in 2006.

So they have sent bulldozers to demolish the houses along the border with Gaza that covered the tunnels providing Gaza's 1.8m people with half their basic needs and most of their fuel and building material.Of some 300 tunnels that operated before Egypt's army overthrew Muhammad Morsi, the Muslim Brother who had been president for a year, only ten are said now to function.

In October 2014 the Times of India reported that the bribes required to clear the various stages of the planning-permission process in central Mumbai could add up to as much as half of basic building costs.Audio and Video content on Economist.com requires a browser that can handle iFrames.The ugliest effect of the return of land, though, may be the brake it applies to the economy as a whole.

The diverse appearance of animals is mostly superficial; the bewildering variety of known forms, some truly bizarre, can be assorted among a mere half-dozen basic body plans.

Over one-half of its basic channels are never watched in my house.

"At the inquest, Gadd was found to have breached half a dozen basic safety procedures".